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28 Apr 01
1. Electronic Application Conference Call Notes Minutes of the third call on 16 January 2001 in the Covering Kids electronic application series is posted on the Covering Kids web site. 2. Immigrant Health Coverage and Access The collection of publications is available on the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured Web page at http://www.kff.org/medicaid/2241-index.cfm. There is a range of publications from a basic fact sheet and a chart pack to in-depth reports.
3. Back-to-School Campaign Technical Assistance The "Tailoring Your Message: Bringing the Covering Kids Public Education Campaign Home" conference call was 26 April and a replay is available through 3 May. The telephone number is 1-800-615-3210 and the access code is 5102202. The next conference call, "Back-to-School 2001," is 22 May at 8:00 am HST. GMMB&A staff will discuss the upcoming communications wave beginning August 6, their Back-to-School Action Kit, core campaign messages, and how to use the kit's materials to publicize outreach efforts to local media.
4. Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment Report This web page has links to specialized data and multimedia files. Hard copies will be available by early June.
5. Mothers and Newborns Health Insurance Act of 2001 Senators Christopher Bond (R-Mo.) and John Breaux (D-La.) introduced SB 724 to allow states to provide prenatal care coverage through their CHIP programs to low-income, uninsured pregnant women age 19 and older. In addition, states could use presumptive eligibility to enroll uninsured pregnant women quickly and could automatically enroll infants born to mothers covered through CHIP to prevent a gap in health coverage. Dr. Jennifer Howse, president of the March of Dimes, said that the organization is "particularly pleased to see that the bill introduced by Sens. Bond and Breaux includes several key provisions that would...improve the health of mothers and children by providing greater access to prenatal care."
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